Kenji Kajiya, Associate Professor, Archival Research Center, Kyoto City University of Arts, examines the physical refabrication of art works from the history of postwar Japanese art. Such refabrications have been made for numerous survey exhibitions and for retrospectives of individual artists, including such major figures like Akasegawa Genpei, Lee Ufan, and Nakahara Kodai. The lecture considers not only the technical considerations behind refabrication, but the ways in which refabrication has shaped representations and understandings of the history of postwar Japanese art.
This lecture is generously sponsored by the Edith O'Donnell Institute of Art History.